Posts Tagged ‘Basic income’

Work should be allocated by self-selection not compulsion, but beneficiaries should have a reasonable financial incentive to do paid work. Benefit withdrawal is effectively a tax, and effective marginal tax rates, including benefit withdrawal, should ideally be no higher for beneficiaries than for high income earners. “Full employment”, in Alison’s manifesto.

Guaranteed Minimum Income systems often use means testing. The Unconditional Basic Income doesn’t. It is not unusual to fail to distinguish between them, label them both Basic Income, and blame one of them for the faults of the other. Some welfare history, August 2017.

Women should have their own money as individuals, not just as part of a family or household, and children need at least as much money as adults, if the cost of childcare, including the opportunity cost of parental childcare, is taken into account. Welfare reform for the 21st century, August 2010.

High priority was given to the need for tax and income support for women working in the home, and for more childcare facilities. The most logical way of doing this, with the least fuss, is by the basic income method. History of Basic Income politics in New Zealand, 1996.